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Abstract Diarrhea is still a health problem in developing countries including Indonesia according to the health department, the problem is evident from the high morbidity and mortality due to diarrhea. The purpose of this study is to describe the level of knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors from head of household about diarrhea in, Banjar Dauh Uma, Bitera Village Gianyar. This research design use descriptive with cross sectional approach, the number of samples are 70 respondents which is selected by simple random sampling. Data that used in this study is primary data that collected by doing an interview and observation directly to the respondents by using questionnaire and checklist as the instruments. The result of this research suggest that the level of knowledge from respondents is classified good category which is 60 respondents (85,7%). Attitudes from the respondents classified as good category which is 48 respondents (68,6%), and the behavior from the respondents classified sufficient category which is 36 respondents (51,4%). Respondents are less aware about prevention of diarrhea such as having clean water and early handling of diarrhea using oralit. As a conclusions, this research showed that the level of knowledge and attitudes of respondents is classified as good category and the behaviors is classified sufficient category. Therefore expected that paramedics can provide information and health promotion to increase public knowledge about diarrhea.